Experience a First-Person Walk Through Tokyo

Maybe you’ve always wanted to visit Tokyo. You can visit a fairly realistic (though, highly stylized) version in Sega’s Yakuza games. Or you can watch this video. Uploaded by YouTube user egawauemon, this is pretty much exactly what it’s like to stroll through Tokyo, minus the actual walking and oppressive summer heat. × Shibuya, Tokyo,…

How Yokai Watch Was Engineered To Be A Massive Hit

Yokai Watch, Level 5’s popular spirit collecting game, is still going strong, with the game remaining in Japan’s video game sales top 10 list for nearly a year. There’s no catching lightning in a bottle like with Pokémon, but according to developer Level 5, if you really try, you can get pretty close “We’ve created…

Parents Allegedly Sold Children to Buy Virtual In-Game Items

A young unmarried couple in China are accused selling not one, but two of their children to human traffickers. The money they got was used for gaming. As reported on Guangdong TV (via Sina Games and Games in Asia), the young parents’ first son was unplanned. Instead of supporting the child, they allegedly sold the…

Though its Kickstarter didn’t perform all too well, indie parkour game Lemma is still alive and in active development, as evidenced by its new (and quite good-looking) trailer. In a comment on YouTube, Lemma’s lead developer gave an optimistic release date estimate of January on PC.

Whose Bright Idea Was It To Put Mario Kart Underwater, Anyway?

There’s a reason Nintendo keep a very loose leash on “realism” in stuff like Mario Kart. Oh come on, don’t try and tell me you’ve never wondered how they survive so long down there…

Not Sure If Actual Thorin Oakenshield Actor Or Cosplayer

A physical likeness to the character you’re cosplaying as is never a necessity. But if you’ve got one anyway, boy does it have an effect. If you’re wondering, this was the winner in the cosplay stage event at the Salt Lake City FantasyCon.

If You Play Too Much Civilization, You Need Help

It’s not a problem, OK? It’s a disease I reinstalled Civ V the other day, and it has fucked me up. My family is away on holidays for a few weeks so I’m home alone, meaning that I’ve been sliding back into the very worst habits of a Civ fan, from ignoring my own “one…

“Jake” Sparrow. Cute. Cosplay by Stoic-Ambience, photo by Estrada Photography

On Cliff Bleszinski, Zynga & Meetings

Cliff “Cliffy “Dude Huge” B” Bleszinski, formerly of Epic but on a break for a while, has a new gig. It’s being published by Nexon, but before signing on that dotted line, he met with pretty much everyone. And that included Zynga. In a Reddit AMA, Cliff says: I know so many folks at EA,…

Suggested reading: Michael McMaster’s thoughts on Mountain. “It’s not aspiring to anything greater. It’s iconography. This is fine.”

If you liked Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and weren’t already psyched for the sequel, this new trailer should do the trick. See you soon, Monokuma.